Adventurous and Sustainable Eating

The Perennial Plate

Butter is about as Minnesotan as you can get, although I guess its a little more French than Minnesotan. But we have butter here in this great state and Hope Creamery does it particularly well. Learn how they make it today, the same way they did it 50 years ago.

50 years ago I worked in a creamery that churned butter. I enjoyed the work, because I thought it was special. The butter we produced was packaged in 64# boxes, 1/4# and 1# sizes. Sad to say the creamery is no longer in existence. I hope to make the 300 mile trip to Hope to purchase butter. It is worth the time and effort, as Hope butter is the best I have had.

When we where still running our dairy we sold our milk to hope and before hope to the Moland Creamery. That was before we went organic in 94 then we sold to Organinc Valley but we had to give the dairy up in 2006. We just couldn’t make a profit anymore and most small dairys are in the same boat there just are not enough creamerys left to dirve a competitive market. most dairy farmers haven’t had a price increase pre hundred wheight in 4 years.